Environment

Very few people in Ottawa are aware that a nuclear waste dump, 9 stories high and 100 football fields in width is going to be built in Chalk River, near the Ottawa River. The Grannies want to sound the alarm. Ottawa’s water supply is threatened.
So the Grannies, along with Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County set up a tea party, complete with goodies, ice tea and hot tea to attract people to come and learn about this huge dump of nuclear waste to be covered in plastic and placed near the Ottawa River. Check out the video. Get more info at...

(Tune: Be Prepared, The Boy Scouts’ Marching Song)
Gotta Go! No use telling me to wait
When I know that it soon will be too late
Gotta find the nearest possible dépot
Can’t just tell my personal river not to flow.
Gotta go! Whether pee or dreaded poo
Where to go? When the world is watching you
It isn’t just the tourists who must find a better way
Though Ottawa’s the capital, we live here every day
If you build it we will come, and there’s the woe –
Gotta go!
Need to pee! When we take the LRT
It’s the key in the Park...

(Tune: Found a Peanut)
There’s an elephant (x3) in the room
Though the Premiers they ignore it
There’s an elephant in the room
There’s an elephant (x3) in the room
All around us climate changes
There’s an elephant in the room.
There are floods and global warming
Storms we’ve never seen before
There are holes up in the ozone
Oceans creeping up the shore.
Underground there will be pipelines
More pollution they will make
We’ll have oil spills, lots of carbon
Cleaning up’s no piece of cake.
They ignore it, they have blinkers
...

(Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
The elephant in the room (x2)
The Premiers they don’t want to see
The elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room(x2)
It’s the Energy East pollutionto
Increase our planet’s doom.
The oil will never splll (x2)
Never, never speak of it
The oil will never spill.
The pipes will never crack (x2)
The pipes will last forever more
The pipes will never crack.
And even if they break
And spill out all the muck
Won’t take them more than 40 years
To clean up all the guck.
The tar sands will grow
Premiers...

(tune: Flying Trapeze)
Don’t give us a pipeline as big as this hose
A leak of this size who knows how far it goes
Of course it must leak that’s as plain as your nose
Nobody can stop it, you know.
How fast can we sell all our assets away
No jobs for refining the crude on the way
And then Harper’s petro state’s well on the way
And Canada hits a new low.
Nobody knows what goes into the pipes
Nobody knows it, so nobody gripes
But naphtha and benzine are poisonous types
That get that old tarsands to flow.
And if it gets out, as it...

Skipping Chant:
Pipeline, pipeline
Where does it go?
All that sticky, goopy gunk
What if it should blow?
Pipeline, pipeline
Water’s all around
Oil will kill the water birds
And contaminate the ground.
Pipeline, pipeline
Age 55 or more
Rusty holes and blockages
Are certainly in store!
Pipeline, pipeline
Murphy’s always there.
Denials and assurances
Won’t remove the scare.
Pipeline, pipeline
What about our dreams?
Healthy fish and waters pure
Drinking from the streams?
Photo: Jo rests after 10 km. hike while Jane (in short skirt) gets ready to...